Trying to stamp out words is futile. I read something like this and get the gut-wrenching feeling that the focus is all wrong.

First: why jump the first guy for pot. Seriously. It’s pot and pot is less than alcohol.

Second: As long as being homosexual is considered a bad thing it doesn’t matter what word games we play. We’ve seen the sutpidity of political correctness play out as giant fail with the various handicapt->handy-capable->differently-abled endless dance. So too the Idiot->retarded->Challenged chain of _medical_ terms became “mean”.

The “mean” isn’t in the words, its in the people.

Acting all surprised when a guy payed to enact a macho stereotype gets all stereotpycally macho is lunacy.